Treaty of Peace and Amity

The Treaty of Peace and Amity, also called the Opening of Japan, was an 1854 treaty signed by Shogun Tokugawa Iesada of the Tokugawa Shogunate and Commodore Matthew Perry of the United States. The senkaku policy of not accepting foreign trade (except from China and the Dutch) was finally broken, and Japan was opened to foreigners. This treaty would eventually lead to a revolution against the Shogun, who had abandoned his people, in 1868: the Boshin War.